Health care is one of the leading themes of the presidency. Here are some key initiatives:Geriatric care: the Law on Special Geriatric Care stipulates that 75+ Centers will be established to provide comprehensive diagnosis and treatment for seniors, including rehabilitation. More than 300 such...
The Health Minister's draft regulation on health care quality indicators, which affects more than 27,000 health care providers, went out for public consultation on Friday. The consultation will last ten days.
Skontrolowane szpitale w województwie lubelskim podejmowały w latach 2021-2023 działania zmierzające do zwiększenia dostępności i jakości udzielanych świadczeń zdrowotnych poprzez pozyskanie nowoczesnego sprzętu i aparatury medycznej - co wykazała kontrola NIK?
The Ombudsman for Human Rights (Ombudsman) has taken up the case of a Polish citizen, a person in crisis of homelessness, whose health deteriorated during his stay in Germany. The man lost consciousness and underwent intensive care and surgical treatment in a Berlin hospital. Due to the language...
In 2023, public and private spending on health care in Poland amounted to PLN 241.6 billion, or 7.1 percent of GDP, according to the Central Statistical Office. Compared to 2022, total spending increased by more than 23 percent, with this growth generated by public spending, as private spending...
The Central Statistical Office has published a report on the life expectancy of Poles and listed the main causes of death.
Banning the sale of not only nicotine products, but also nicotine-free products to people under 18 is Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna's idea of solving the problem of "disposables." - We are going to the Sejm with such a bill in September," she announces.
In 2023, the average life expectancy for men in Poland will be 74.7 years, while for women it will be 82 years, according to a CSO report released Tuesday.
Dr., UMP Professor Agnieszka Neumann-Podczaska has been dismissed from her position as director of the National Institute of Geriatrics, Rheumatology and Rehabilitation.
The National Cancer Strategy was a good initiative because it is a multi-year effort with very ambitious and very good established goals, Deputy Health Minister Marek Kos said during Thursday's Health Committee meeting on the NSO implementation report.
The health contribution is calculated slightly differently depending on the form of taxation, but it is one of the expenses that all entrepreneurs regularly incur. The government has declared that the current way of calculating it must change. Find out what the ruling parties are proposing.
The list is valid from July 26, 2024 to July 26, 2026. Which centers have qualified for the network and until when can protests be filed?
The RPO transmits to the Prime Minister the demands of experts and social organizations on the measures the state should take to reduce the social effects of addiction to nicotine products
Lukasz Pietrzak has been appointed Chief Pharmaceutical Inspector by Prime Minister Donald Tusk. The appointment was handed over by the Minister of Health. - Lukasz Pietrzak will be a fantastic Chief Pharmaceutical Inspector," Izabela Leszczyna assured a few days ago. Pietrzak has a master's...
Rozpoczęło się ostatnie przed przerwą wakacyjną posiedzenie Sejmu. Z punktu widzenia systemu ochrony zdrowia nie zapadną na nim żadne ważkie decyzje. Nie będzie, przede wszystkim, rozstrzygnięcia dalszych losów obywatelskiego projektu nowelizacji ustawy o wynagrodzeniach minimalnych pracowników...
The Presidium of the Supreme Medical Council, after reviewing the draft law on amendments to the Law on State Emergency Medical Services and certain other laws, sends comments to Deputy Minister Mark Kos.
The National Chamber of Physiotherapists strongly opposes the proposed changes to outpatient and home physiotherapy. According to KRF President Dr. Tomasz Dybek, the changes proposed in the draft Order of the President of the National Health Fund may limit the availability of physiotherapy...
The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health Amending the Regulation on the Pilot Program in Mental Health Centers has been submitted for consultation.
We have 4 new national consultants. Prof. Bartosz Karaszewski became national consultant in neurology, Prof. Ilona Kurnatowska became consultant in internal medicine, MA Agnieszka Urbańska became consultant in long-term care nursing, and Prof. Ewa Zalewska became national consultant in medical...
The Parliamentary Health Committee on Thursday gave a positive opinion on the National Health Fund's financial plan for 2025. The discussion, at times, was far from both substance and parliamentary standards. Some opposition deputies left the room at one point.
The Health Minister wants to loosen the staffing pressures currently placed on hospitals by payer requirements. On Thursday, she presented the outlines of her program, based on three pillars: deregulation, transformation and the inversion of the benefits pyramid, at a meeting with local...
The National Health Fund is in the process of increasing valuations, in accordance with the AOTMiT recommendation selected by the health ministry. The implementation of this recommendation is being done by annexing contracts. - We plan to complete this process by the end of July," representatives...
The Draft Law on Amendments to the Law on Health Protection against the Consequences of Tobacco and Tobacco Products has been submitted for consultation.
At its session starting Thursday, the Diet will decide, most likely, the fate of a bill decriminalizing abortion and, more specifically, aiding and abetting abortion. On Tuesday, the Extraordinary Committee, which deals with projects amending abortion laws, began work on the three remaining...
The NIK decided to look at the actions taken in the COVID-19 epidemic by key state institutions responsible for public health, including: Minister of Health and Chief Sanitary Inspector.
Ministerstwo Zdrowia w załączeniu przedstawia wykaz priorytetowych dziedzin specjalizacji dla pielęgniarek i położnych, które będą mogły uzyskać dofinansowanie w 2024 r. z podziałem na województwa oraz z uwzględnieniem liczby miejsc szkoleniowych i edycji w województwie. Wykaz ten będzie stanowił...
Talks with Mark Augustine, deputy president of the National Health Service.
The Health Ministry wants to expand the panel of examinations carried out as part of occupational medicine, including cancer screening. - Their cost will not be charged to the employer; the National Health Service will pay for them, the minister announced.
End of the year, grades and certificates. Izabela Leszczyna's six months at Miodowa are a time for summaries. We ask Monika Pintal-Slimak, president of the National Chamber of Laboratory Diagnosticians, about the evaluation.
The in vitro program, the availability of the morning-after pill in Poland's 1,200 pharmacies as part of a pharmaceutical service, disciplining hospitals not to deny women the right to legal abortion - these areas, among others, Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna pointed to as her successes after...
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